THE STORY OF KING SOLOMON 2

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As the fame of king Solomon circulate around the world, the Queen of Sheba visited him in his palace in Jerusalem and asked him difficult questions and the king gave her definite answers which impressed the Queen of Sheba. The Queen of Sheba was amazed, breathless and privileged to witness the king’s palace, temple and his servants....as everything was well organized. She brought some presents to king Solomon which includes golds, spices and jewels, and the king gave her everything she asked for including some customary gifts.

King Solomon offers brunt offerings and fellowship offerings in the temple’s altar three times every year and he received more than twenty five tons of gold yearly apart from merchant’s taxes, or tributes. He was super rich and stores his gold in the Hall Of Forest in Lebanon. His throne was covered with ivory and pure gold, the steps leading to his throne was designed like a lion which contains six steps and twelve lions. The back of his throne was decorated like a bullhead and his throne’s armrests was a figure of a lion and such beautiful throne wasn’t in any kingdom. All his drinking cups were made of gold and he had a ship which brings gold, ivory, silver, apes and monkeys every three years. 

King Solomon was the richest and wisest king and people come to him from around the world with gifts such as gold, silver, robes, weapons, spices, horses, and mules. He had over fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand cavalry horses and during his days silver was common as stones in Jerusalem. He was into exportation of horses, and chariots from “Musri, Cilicia and Egypt, supplies to “Hittite and Syria. 

King Solomon was obsessed with foreign women, he married from Egypt, Edom, Hittite, Moab, Ammon, and Sidon. He was led away by his foreign wives to build an altars and worship other gods and sinned against the living God. Though the Lord appeared to him twice and warned him of the consequences of worshiping other gods. So the Lord said to king Solomon, “Since this is your attitude and you have not kept my covenant and my decrees, which I commanded you, I will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your subordinates. Nevertheless, for the sake of David your father, I will not do it during your lifetime. I will tear it out of the hand of your son. Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom from him, but will give him one tribe for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”

King Solomon was the author of several book in the Bible including “Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon.”

King Solomon challenges started with king Hadad of Edom and he was an evil bitter enemy of Israel. Rezon the king of Syria also becomes an enemy to Israel because of king Solomon’s sins. 

King Solomon began to have eternal enemy named Jeroboam who was his official, because the Lord had chosen Jeroboam from tribe of Ephraim to rule other ten tribes of Israel. When king Solomon heard it, he seek to kill Jeroboam but he escaped.

King Solomon lived a good live apart from worshipping of idols, he ruled Israel for 40 years and he was the last king to rule the United Kingdom of Israel, he died at 60, and was buried in the City of David and he was succeeded by his son Rehoboam who’s mother was Naamah the Ammonite.

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